1. cap, crest -- (lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains")
2. crest -- (reach a high point; "The river crested last night")

crest can be used as a noun

1. crest -- (the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave)
2. peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit -- (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit")
3. crown, crest -- (the center of a cambered road)
4. crest -- ((heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet)
5. crest -- (a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal)

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They were on the crest of a hill. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

2.

They had driven over the crest of a hill. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

3.

In every crest some undulating light or shade--some retrospect. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4.

It was a crest ere thou wast born. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

5.

On the plumed crest of his Boeotian fo. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

6.

The crest of youth against your dignity. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

7.

The sweepy crest hung floating in the win. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

8.

Seized by the crest the unhappy warrior dre. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

9.

And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

10.

frolic-some crests and glistening. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

11.

His valour shown upon our crests toda. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

12.

They fall their crests and like deceitful jade. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

13.

When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

14.

The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

16.

Meanwhile the boat was still booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like the erected crests of enraged serpents. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

17.

Binding of turbans and chaplets, and making crests and top-knots of flowers. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana

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A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the plaintain-trees. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo